ALBINONI: Trattenimenti Armonici Op.6 [CD de audio] Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra, Carlo Centemeri and Albinoni

Tomaso Albinoni was an unusual composer in many ways. An employee of the family business until his father's death in 1709, he referred to himself simply as a dilettante, an amateur musician. Inc after moving to Venice, he kept his distance from the professional music scene; Since he never subscribed to the union of Venetian musicians, he was never able to perform publicly in Venice. Despite this, he composed a whopping 80 operas. Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra presents this special album from the Complettrattenimenti Armonici op.6. Although a violinist at heart, Albinoni shows his experience of vocal music by writing a cantabile violin melody in the opening movement of each sonata. Each of the sonatas is written in the church style, alternating fast and slow movements. Of these, No. 6 proved particularly successful and was arranged by contemporaries for a variety of different instruments, including recorder and transverse flute. But what is even more interesting is the priceless realization of the continuo of this sonata made by a certain HN Gerber when he was a student: in fact, HN Gerber's teacher was one of Albinoni's greatest admirers, a German organist named Johann Sebastian Bach .